07/03/2024 | President
To mark International Women’s Day on 8 March, PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos has recalled the global challenge of violence against women. “Let us remember that violence against women in all their diversity continues to be the most widespread human rights violation worldwide,” he said...
07/03/2024 | President
Joint statement by PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos and the Chair of the PACE Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination Mariia Mezentseva, on the occasion of International Women’s Day 2024 Gender inequality continues to trigger gender-based violence, in our continent and beyond. There is...
06/03/2024 | Monitoring
The Monitoring Committee, meeting today in Paris, proposed closing the post-monitoring dialogue with Bulgaria and following the developments in the country with regard to the rule of law, democracy and human rights in the framework of its periodic reviews. By adopting the report by Thórhildur...
05/03/2024 | Parliamentary support
The Parliament of Morocco, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) are organising a seminar on the evaluation of laws by the parliamentary institution on 5 and 6 March 2024 at the Parliament of Morocco in...
04/03/2024 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
All the persons directly responsible for and participating in the persecution and ill-treatment of Vladimir Kara-Murza* should be included in sanctions lists naming individuals, which are established under the “Magnitsky laws”, said PACE's Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, meeting...
27/02/2024 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The PACE General Rapporteur on human rights defenders and whistle-blowers, Emanuelis Zingeris (Lithuania, EPP/CD), and PACE General Rapporteur for political prisoners, Thórhildur Sunna Ævarsdóttir (Iceland, SOC), have reacted to today’s judgment of a court in Moscow, sentencing Oleg Orlov, co...
26/02/2024 | President
“There cannot be free and fair elections in a situation where freedoms of speech, assembly and association are curtailed; where opposition political parties are liquidated and their leaders persecuted; where the freedom of the media is not respected; and where there is no redress against these...
23/02/2024 | President
Liechtenstein Minister of Foreign Affairs, Education and Sport and President of the Committee of Ministers, Dominique Hasler, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly, Theodoros Rousopoulos, and the Secretary General, Marija Pejčinović Burić, today made the following statement on the occasion...
23/02/2024 | President
“The worst that can happen is for us to get used to this war, to start perceiving it as a new normality. We must avoid this at all costs,” today said PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos in a ceremony to mark two years of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. “But I also ask myself what we...
16/02/2024 | President
Following the death of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) President Theodoros Rousopoulos made the following statement: "I am deeply shocked by today's terrible news of the death in prison of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny...
12/02/2024 | Monitoring
Following a visit to Chișinău and Comrat from 4 to 7 February 2024, the PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of the Republic of Moldova, Pierre-Alain Fridez (Switzerland, SOC) and Zanda Kalniņa-Lukaševica (Latvia, EPP/CD), have welcomed continued progress on the far-reaching reforms of...
06/02/2024 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
On the occasion of the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), Etilda Gjonaj (Albania, SOC), General Rapporteur on Violence against Women of PACE and Co-ordinator of the Parliamentary Network Women Free from Violence, has called for universal prohibition of this...